Ice Cube Painting

Step 2: Add a couple of drops of food coloring to each cup of water. Keep adding food coloring slowly until you get the color you like. If you only have a few food coloring colors mix colors together to create more colors.

Step 3: Pour colored water into ice cube tray

Step 4: Wait about 1/2 hour or until ice is half way frozen then take ice cube tray out of freeze. Place 1 craft/popsicle stick in each ice cube tray mold and put back into the freezer.

Step 5: Let the ice freeze completely. When completely frozen slowly pull ice cubes out of tray. If they are stuck slowly twist ice cube tray or leave out for a few minutes then pull them out.

Step 6: Once ice cubes are out hold them by the handle (craft/popsicle stick) and use like a paint brush on paper.

You just create home made water color paint!

Splatter Painting

Splatter painting is a lot of fun and easy for kids of all ages but beware this can be messy and is best done outside or if in the house make sure you cover the table with newspaper or table cloth. Kids can where smocks or and old shirt.

Materials: Construction Paper, Paint brush, Paints

Step 1: Place paper on a covered table.

Step 2: Have children dip their paintbrush in the paint

Step 3: Standing over their paper over the table have children tap the side of their paint brush or using their fingers flick the bottom of the paintbrush so the paint splatters all over their paper.

See how many different patterns you can make with the splatter paint.

Have Fun!

Salt Painting

Why use traditional paints when you can use salt! Try this activity to create fun art work.

Salt Paint Recipe

Materials: Salt, food coloring

Step 1: Pour 1/4 cup salt into bowl (I used paper for easy clean up)

Step 2: Add 4 drops of food coloring to the salt and mix until all the sand is colored. Add more food coloring if needed. Repeat this step with each color you use.

Using your salt paint:

Materials: Paper, Glue, Paintbrush, Salt Paint, Paperplate

Step 1: Have your child draw a picture

Step 2: Pour some liquid glue onto a paperplate

Step 3: Using a paint brush paint glue on desired area of picture that your child would like to be colored.

Step 4: Shake salt paint over glue

Spray Painting

Ok, so this can be messy but lots of fun. I recommend doing it out this outside or over a newspaper covered table.

Step 1: Place a piece of paper into the aluminum baking tin (try to use a piece of paper that covers the entire bottom of the tin).

Step 2: Pour a little of each color paint onto the paper.

Step 3: Add the balls and move tin from side to side.

The balls will make different patterns all over the paper.

Kids Play and Create Tip:

If you use just the primary colors: blue, yellow, red. The colors will mix and forms new colors. This is a great exercise for teaching kids about how to form colors. Yellow and blue will make green, red and yellow make orange, yellow and blue make green and red and blue make purple.